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Islam lauds martyrdom. The traditions of Muhammad state that a shahid's sins will be forgiven when he sheds his first drop of blood, that he can admit 70 relatives to paradise and will himself be married there to 72 beautiful virgins, a point emphasized by Osama bin Laden. (Some authorities, however, feel that causing one's own death categorically disqualifies one as a martyr...
...director yelled, "cut", the cameras stopped and the crew was packing up for the day. But the action continued in the shantytown close to the airport in Maputo, Mozambique, where the new biopic "Ali" was filming earlier this year. Despite the lull, Will Smith kept on playing Muhammad Ali, shadowboxing, grooving along the dusty road surrounded by hundreds of adoring kid extras. Suddenly, Smith's feet left the ground and he was floating on a sea of hands. "Everyone starts shouting 'Ali, Ali, Ali,'" recalls director Michael Mann. "So, of course, I unwrapped. We started shooting like crazy. Will...
...first time Will was boxing with Ali there. And we're on the speed bag. And Will's in the ring and he had this look in his eye and I thought, 'Man, is he going to do this?' And he launched into the Muhammad Ali voice. The very first time to put on that Muhammad Ali attitude in front of Ali. Ali just looked at him and said to Howard Bingham (the sports photographer and a longtime Ali friend), 'Was I that crazy? Why didn't you tell me I was that crazy...
...nothing to write about—nothing, that is, until I learned that the new Michael Mann film about Muhammad Ali hits theaters on Christmas Day. And two things occurred...
...audiences. “Forget what you think you know,” the tagline for Ali, seems to be the line for Mann’s career, which includes The Last of the Mohicans and the brilliant Insider. This time around, Mann tackles the controversial life of boxer Muhammad Ali (Smith) in a biopic that covers the decade from the 1964 championship to the “Rumble in the Jungle” with George Foreman in 1974. Mann’s stylings aside, the real test of Ali’s worth will be whether or not Smith...